BH, gtr and all SD people have a look at this game. It was against the great South side of the time, which beat everybody in the Federation. A great effort by the club; one wonders whether South went the knuckle, because apparently, good as they were, they had a bit of a reputation in that regard.
http://waflfootyfacts.net/season/games/stats.php?GameID=3350
Some great players in that SD side that day as well AR-
Ted Holdsworth
Duggan Anderson
Jack Murray
Jim Davies (WAFL President in the late 70s)
Laurie Bowen
Pat Mountain (Father of Paul)
If you dont know or havent heard the background story to Duggan Anderson’s great career it is well worth a read, talk about overcoming adversity. :ohmy:
my grand dad always had anderson – such a brave and talented man, whom i saw interviewed by slater — and holdsworth in his best SD side. Also, bease, Bunton, another swans lad, triumphed over adversity to play league football; I think he had a pretty severe disability as a kid?
Think Bunts had polio as a kid and had to wear splints on his legs?
Great effort by Swans in that game. Interesting that Bernie Naylor wasn’t playing for South Fremantle that day. The following week South beat fellow 1947 grand finalists West Perth by 101 points. Bernie Naylor kicked 7.5 in that game.
http://waflfootyfacts.net/season/games/stats.php?GameID=3354
jim – thanks on bunts
mighty bulldogs – yep, too true – he kicked 23 against my club
Big second qtr by South and big 3rd qtr by Swans.Strong easterly breeze blowing that you see at Bazo early in the season.
Had Ted Holdsworth not requested to play in defence in his last two seasons, he oculd have been the difference in some of those early games. Four of the first 8 games were lost by four goals or less. He scored 80 goals in 1945 and 534 goa;s in 113 games up to the end of 1945 but sepent his last two years at Swans playing at full back.
Ted is one person I would have loved to meet in my time at Swans. Sadly for all at the club he passed away the night Swans won the 1984 Grand Final.
swansfan: great post on ted: it is also sad that players, such as him, lost years to the war
Here’s a link to The West Australian’ match report for this game on Trove https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/46279443?browse=ndp%3Abrowse%2Ftitle%2FW%2Ftitle%2F30%2F1947%2F04%2F28%2Fpage%2F3809910%2Farticle%2F46279443
good one ric, thanks
An eventual five Sandover medalists in that game…Vic Ashworth’s younger brother Max played in Swans’ 61 premiership, while David Drake-Brockman was Oliver’s brother (who also played with SD).
thanks SH keep up your posts
Duggan Anderson played his 41st game in round 1 1947 on the way to 210.
William Latham served with the RAAF in World War 2.
Ted Holdsworth and Jack Murray both would have reached the 200 game milestone had it not been for the war. Holdsworth played 142 league games for Swans, and Murray played 170.